Thursday, September 09, 2010

Breathtaking views of and from our garden

056: herbs outside kitchen window

055: 3 pigeons resting on tree outside apartment


047: fishes

Fishes in the "pond"

043: view from my bedroom window

038: a birthday gift from aunty MayLeong

037: a mix of pot on the stand that aunty May Leong gave. The cluster of grapes is made by an old German ironsmith who cheche took pity on in Mt Dandenong, Melbourne.


036: our flies


034: our tree again


032: under tree outside the girls room. The creeper that cheche used to grow in the middle of the driveway of the house


030: outside the girls room, the tree that originated from the big Muraya tree outside our house.


029: outside the girls’ room


026: our herbs from the ‘utility’ area


023: the table made by uncle Boon and our stools made by aunty Ah Mooi’s husband from Lukut

021: the light from aunty Christy


017: the sunbird that came to suck the money from our tree.
There were two of them but the other was ‘shy’ to come in


015: more plants, around the fish ‘pond’

012: the vase from aunty Siew Yuen before she left for YWAM and the handmade candle ,
with its Korean poem from aunty Dominica



011: The blue flowers, originated from our old house.

008: corner of the patio with the kafir lime tree from uncle Poon which he dug out from his brother’s house for us.



007: My terracotta turtle on the pot aunty Sook Cheng gave me.


005: our two rosemary plants that are unexpectedly thriving and gives a wonderful scent when you brush your fingers against the leaves. Sook Ning has made a bread using them before and I have put them into many roast vegetables

002: Our old, salvaged cupboard, with the maidenhair fern given by our neighbour,
Mrs Peh years ago. Her plant is long gone but ours is doing well.


001: The fragrant, pretty white flowers of our tree in the patio.